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Music’s apps drop from high last year

School saw spike in apps after going tuition-free

Staff Reporter and Copy Editor
Published Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Applications to the Yale School of Music dropped this year, following a spike in the number of applicants the previous year that was attributed to the school’s elimination of tuition.

For the 2007-’08 academic year, the music school admitted 114 students from its pool of 1,180 applicants, giving the school a 9.6 percent acceptance rate, Music School Dean of Admissions Daniel Pellegrini said. This rate is slightly above last year’s 8.3 percent, when 125 students were accepted from a much larger pool of 1,496.

The 316-student drop in applications from last year to this year...

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